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Add and Select Text in Shapes: Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch

Text can make so much difference to your shapes—add some text to a rectangle and it becomes an info-graphic! There can be any number of other reasons to insert text within a shape—and inserting or editing text within a shape using PowerPoint 2013 for Windows on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface is as easy as doing the same on the desktop version of PowerPoint 2013.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 04 01
Previous: 23 03 01 Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 01 01 01 Widescreen Implementations in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 23-04, Add and Select Text in Shapes, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices

Crop Pictures: Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch

While creating PowerPoint slides, you will invariably add pictures. Of course, you can also add pictures in Word documents or Excel sheets. If you are using any of these programs on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface, this process works just like how you would insert pictures in PowerPoint.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 03 01
Previous: 23 02 04 Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 04 01 Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-03, Crop Pictures, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices

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Using Floaties: Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

On a touch device such as Microsoft’s Surface tablets, you may not have access to a regular keyboard and mouse. Everything happens with a tap or a slide or some other gesture. To adapt an existing program such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for a touch environment is no easy task.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 02 04
Previous: 23 02 03 Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 03 01 Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-02, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices, Using the Touch Floatie

Using Floaties: Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

Tap on a selected picture on a Touch device and you will see a floatie spawning right there. In this case, you see the Picture floatie that provides formatting options for the tapped picture.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 02 03
Previous: 23 02 02 Shape Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 02 04 Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-02, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices, Using the Touch Floatie